At 28 weeks you are starting the third trimester, you have made it to the home stretch! With this milestone, your little one is also settling into the head down position, and getting ready for delivery! By this time your little one is approximately 2.5 pounds and almost 16 inches long! Along with the increase in weight and length, you bundle is quickly adding new skills to his repertoire. These skills include: blinking, coughing, sucking hiccuping, and taking practice breaths!!! Something even more amazing, your little ones sleep cycle now includes the REM (rapid eye movement) phase, which means that he could be dreaming while inside your belly!
While it's great that your bug is beginning to settle into the head down position, the potentially painful part is that his head, and the weight of your uterus may now be sitting on your sciatic nerve, which runs through the lower part of your back, buttocks, and legs. This new pressure may cause pain and tingling in your lower back, buttocks, and legs. This pain usually radiates down the back of your legs to your toes. The best thing to do for sciatic nerve pain is take it easy and wait for your little bundle to wiggle his way off of your sciatic nerve.
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